Derek Rhoades

Derek Rhoades was a resident of El Paso, Texas, originally from Dayton, Ohio. On 8 August 2019, just days after both of his hometowns were targeted in mass shootings, Rhoades was intervewed by CNN journalist Brooke Baldwin, and he said that, as a middle-class white man coming from a country which was traditionally white and Judeo-Christian, he had an obligation to stand up for minorities and oppressed people in the country in the face of white supremacism.